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"Let me get his gun away from him," began John. Possibly the Aleut understood some of this, for all at once he made a sudden spring and caught at his gun. Quick as a flash Rob covered him with his own rifle. "No, you don't," he said; "drop it! That settles it for you!" Again the Aleut seemed to understand, for he stood up, tried to smile again, and once more held out his hand.
Two or three days more passed in this strange situation, but nothing took place which even to Rob's watchful eye seemed to indicate any danger from either of their Aleut companions.
Not knowing whether he was friend or foe, Rob motioned the others to follow him, and approached him with his rifle at a ready. Seeing that they were not afraid, nor disposed to be driven from their place, the Aleut savage for such it proved to be arose, and with what he meant to be a smile stretched out his hand as though in friendship.
Half an hour later the Bennington poked her nose around the next bold promontory of the east coast of Kadiak. One more broad bay lay before them. Tossing up and down on the waves, half-way or more across, was a small, dark object! The eyes of the old Aleut were first to discover this, and he began to shout and gesticulate as several pairs of glasses were turned upon it.
The Aleut paid no attention to this, but went on with his work, once in awhile helping himself to a piece of raw fat. In the course of half an hour or so he had the great robe spread out on the grass, with the difficult work of skinning out the feet all done, and the ears, nose, and all parts of the head skinned out without leaving a slashed spot on the hide.
Perhaps one thousand Aleut hunters would be assembled. Two types of hunting boats were used the big 'bidarkie, carrying twenty or thirty men, and the little kayak, a mere cockle-shell.
He was the chief's son, and already an expert in hunting and in handling the baidarka. So is the Aleut hunter trained. As it had been a very warm day I feared that the skin might spoil. Therefore I concluded to continue to Afognak Place without camping for the night, and so we paddled on and on.
After this the Aleut turned toward the dory, and hauled out something which the boys had not noticed before. He busied himself at the edge of the lagoon. "What's he doing, John?" asked Rob. They all stepped up and watched him. "Why, that's the intestines of the old bear," said Rob, at last. "I didn't see him throw them into the boat." "I know what he's doing," said John.
To the Aleut mind nothing approaches a sea-otter hunt, for it affords not only the keenest sport, but the greatest possible financial reward. The method of the hunt is somewhat complicated in some of its features. When the otter dives the boats gather in a circle, and as soon as it appears every bowman does his best to strike it with an arrow.
"We can't do anything more than just wait, anyhow; and I suppose that our friend here" he motioned to the Aleut boy "will see that we get our share of the whale meat." The boys now saw that whale-hunting among the Aleuts is a partnership affair, a whole village sharing equally in the spoils. Every man of the party now went to work.
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